lete. For those who enter with a masters or masters specialist degree it will take two to three years to complete. The program consists of a general psychology core curriculum, a clinical psychology core, required research projects, a sequence of required clinical practice, a series of advanced elective courses, an area of concentration, and an APA-accredited internship in clinical psychology. The program is designed as a five-year intensive program of study, practice, and research. (Doctoral Program). Salaries of clinical psychologists do depend on educational level, work experience, and employer. In the early 1990s the median salary for clinical psychology was around $40,000. Salaries in the Midwest started at a low of $25,560 for beginning psychologists, to $60, 900 for those in executive position (Specialty, 1995). Today, Clinical psychologists with a doctoral degree and one year of internship start at $31,000 or $37,300 depending on other qualifications (Careers, 1993). Richard Siegert is a clinical psychologist based in Victoria Universitys Psychology Department, where he is head of the Clinical Psychology section. It wasnt something I planned. I guess like a lot of people, psychology was just something I stumbled across at university trying to figure out what I was going to do(Hinengaro, 1998a). Completing a Bachelor of Science in psychology at Victoria University, Richard then did his Master of Social Science degree and clinical diploma at Waikato University before finding work with the Justice Department as a psychologist. Ive probably done more than most by mixing the clinical and the academic. Ive done more on the academic side, but most people would do their degree and just go into practice rather than hop between them like I did (Hinengaro, 1998a). Richard keeps interest in psychology because of the diversity of the subject. Its impossible to keep up with everything thats happening. Ive tried but now Im just specializing i...
